schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) (04/28/88)
I am looking for comments about software/hardware upgrades to my personnal ICM3216. For those lucky people who did not buy one, an ICM3216 was originally a good deal. A cheap, fast 32 bit UNIX engine which benchmarks, for compute bound operations, about as fast an 11/780. Unfortunately, Nat'l support and enthusiasm for this product seems to have vanished. My software level is National UNIX (tm) V2.0v2, vers 2.5_b. This software level (and my hardware apparently) has several bugs (notably a ulimit problem) and disk IO limitations. UNIX V3 from National is $640 for the software and another $280 for the manuals. Additionally, my board (Rev A) is so old that it would have to be returned to be upgraded to the latest rev level - a small matter of another $1000. The latest etch rev lev, in case people are interested is level J 3,4, or 5. Does anyone know of a cheaper way to upgrade? I recall that some people have a BSD port for the ICM - could someone tell me who? What level of hardware does IT run on? Jim Hervey (408) 562-4713 is the person I contacted at National about the upgrades. He is difficult to contact since he never returns phone calls.